Gregg Michel 🦋

Ambulance EMTs Are Routine Today. These Black Medics Helped Pave the Way.

Nice recognition for this oft-forgotten history. 🗃️
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

In the East Village, Hiding in Plain Sight: A Secret Passage to the Underground Railroad

Remarkable and ingenuous. 🗃️

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/n...

The WaPo's cuts sadly confirm its growing irrelevance. Closing international bureaus and essentially ending local news will not serve readers. But it will create an opportunity for new local news sources.

Texas Tech struggles with new policy on gender, race The system’s chancellor meant to instill clarity and accountability, but three weeks into the spring semester, some instructors say the standards have led to “censorship.”

The chancellor offers an incredibly cramped view of what constitutes "degrees of value." #skystorians

Texas Tech struggles with new rules that changed what students learn about race, gender, sexuality www.texastribune.org/2026/02/04/t...

Opinion | I’ve Covered Police Abuse for 20 Years. What ICE Is Doing Is Different.

@radleybalko.bsky.social offers an especially sharp and insightful discussion of the ongoing crisis of federal forces overstepping their authority 🗃️
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...

I would like to see more coverage of these “self-generated” searches. “documents Mr. Patel’s team has found through self-generated searches.”🗃️

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u...

Claudette Colvin, Who Refused to Give Her Bus Seat to a White Woman, Dies at 86

“Maybe by telling my story — something I was afraid to do for a long time — kids will have a better understanding about what the civil rights movement was about.”🗃️

Kyle Longley emphasizes historians have to be advocates for the Archives. #aha26 🗃️

“Destruction by Neglect”—former National Archivist Trudy Peterson’s fear of the current administration’s plans for the National Archives. #AHA26 🗃️

Panelists seated at table for session

Fabulous #aha26 opening session on history teacher prep. Challenges abound but also unique opportunities.

Bar graph showing that highest income earners benefit the most from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act

In one graph, the overwhelming benefit of the new tax law (from the WSJ)

Join us in wishing @michaelstipe.bsky.social a very happy birthday today! 🎉

What a lovely version. Thank you for sharing!

Doing my part to help the community when blood is always needed this time of year.

Arm with gauze , tape, needle sorting blood donation

Happy Birthday Mike Mills !

May their memories be a blessing.

Speaker at podium

Good to hear from NCAA Pres Charlie Baker at the FARA annual meeting. #FAR

Overmyer chosen as Go Bowling Military Bowl STEM Scholar-Athlete

goutsa.com/news/2025/11...

Congrats to #9, Patrick Overmyer. Great student, dedicated athlete. #utsa

Cover of the book Before The Movement

Excited to teach Dylan Penningroth’s Before The Movement to my grad class today. Preparing for class I’m reminded how rich, insightful, and innovative the book is. 🗃️

Speaker at podium with panelists seated at table.

Congrats to all the UTSA History students presenting at the Cowden History Symposium. @utsaroadrunners.bsky.social 🗃️

Ballroom full of people in front of screen that says “Día De Los Muertos Celebration”

@utsaroadrunners.bsky.social students show up! Día De Los Muertos celebration sponsored by the History Club. 🗃️

AHA Sends Letter Objecting to Firing of Texas State University Professor The AHA has sent a letter to Texas State University professor Kelly Damphousse registering strong objection to the university’s decision to terminate the employment of Dr. Thomas Alter without due pro...

The AHA has sent a letter to Texas State University president Kelly Damphousse registering strong objection to the university’s decision to terminate the employment of Dr. Thomas Alter without due process. 🗃️

Deeply felt and ultimately sorrowful essay

Anthropic settlement is a win for authors. Will it set the pattern others follow?

Well-deserved, congratulations!

Airplane taking off with the rising sun behind it and parked planes in the foreground

Early morning at JFK. #airport

The King children put it succinctly about the latest file release: their father was “relentlessly targeted by an invasive, predatory, and deeply disturbing disinformation and surveillance campaign.” Never forget that fact. 🗃️

Police Against the Movement A bold retelling of the 1960s civil rights struggle through its work against police violence—and a prehistory of both the Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter movements that emerged half a century...

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Really look forward to this new book from @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social. Will be an important addition to the growing historiography on police and the movements of the ‘60s. 🗃️

Stage at amphitheater with large American flag hung in back and drawing above of Willie Nelson

Marking the 4th at Willie’s picnic and hoping for good news from Hunt about the missing kids. #texas